0614 - Rebbe Talking about things in Heaven Part 2 - When R' Dovid Okinov was Killed

00:01 I once mentioned that there were very few times, but there were a few times that the Rebbe would mention something about a person who passed away, where he finds himself lamayla in the Shamayim. I mentioned this was when a bocher, Yankov Dovid Katlarsky, passed away. He was a nineteen-year-old bocher, and the Shabbos after that, the Rebbe told his father by the farbrengen, "That for sure now he's lis- sitting and listening, hearing Chasidus from my father-in-law, from the Friediker Rebbe." He also mentioned that this happened when Reb Pinia Altwis passed away. This was tav shin chaf gimel, year tav shin chaf gimel, and it was at the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe mentioned that one of the people, roshei hayechas, to the redemption of the Friediker Rebbe was Pinia. And the Rebbe said, "This time he's sitting by a farbrengen of the Friediker Rebbe, and let's sing his nigun that he used to sing by the case of Blacham Brocha, and this time he will sing along." So here also the Rebbe said things that are going lamayla, where the neshamah is found. So I want to mention there's another time when the Rebbe used such an expression, and that was when Reb Dovid Okuniev, rachmanu l'tzlan, was murdered. Reb Dovid Okuniev was a Chassidish arid. He came out of Russia in the beginning of the lameds. And in the week of Parshas Noach, tav shin mem, he was walking in the street on Montgomery Street, going to shul. He was holding his tallit

01:23 and tefillin, and rachmanu l'tzlan, a goy murdered him. So Shabbos, by the farbrengen, actually it wasn't Shabbos that time the Rebbe would farbrengen. It's the Shabbos, the farbrengen Motzaei Shabbos. So it was Motzaei Shabbos, Parshas Noach. The Rebbe spoke about it at the end of the farbrengen, and he called it a meira hamafil, an outrageous thing that happened. And the Rebbe said that what we should do is connect it to inyan of Torah, which means we should make a meset for Torah in his aliyas neshama. The Rebbe used the Gemara where it says sometimes, "By certain people it says that we would make a yeshiva on his kever." Which means for aliyas neshama you should learn Torah. So you should mayaset, they should establish a meset of Torah, especially for those who came from that country, which means for people who come out of Russia, there should be a meset for them. And the Rebbe says that this farbrengen, and also the meset that's going to be make, be made, is definitely a big nachas ruach for the neshama, and it's connected to our aliyas neshama. And then the Rebbe said these words, "That he's already in Gan Eden together with the Rabbeim, Rabbi Senya and Nesiyenu." So here the Rebbe told us where he is in Gan Eden lamayla. And then the Rebbe continued further on that he should be meses a lot in learning Torah, that should be connected to only good things, and it should be good things that we

02:41 could see that it's good. Not only good things which we know are good, but superficially, outwardly they're bad. There should be dvoriman, which we call, uh, the chtsadim and inionim which are chtsadim golim. Chtsadim golim lamata masoret fochim. And the ikar is that we should come to the time of Mashiach, where we will look back and we will see how everything really is chesed. I would also mention that in the maimer that the Rebbe said by that farbrengen, which was the beginning of the farbrengen, the Rebbe said a maimer, and the maimer started with the posek, "That after the mabul, Noach brought korbonos, and the Aibishter smelled the reyach ha'nechech." So the Midrash says that what did he really smell? He smelled the smell of the smoke that came out from the furnace in which Avraham Avinu later on was put in. Also the smell of the furnace where Hanania, Mishael, and Azariah were put in also in the furnace of fire. And the smell of the day Rashmad, of the generation before Mashiach, where they have a lot of problems. That smell, that came to the Aibishter, and because of that, the Aibishter, this gave the Aibishter nachas ruach. And the Midrash says that's the pshat in the posek, "Which means that it's such a generation that even though it's a day Rashmad, a generation with all kinds of hardships, nevertheless, what do the Yidden want? The whole drasha, the whole thing that the Yidden are looking for is lias mevakshif enecha,

04:01 to look for the pnimiyus of Havaya." And the Rebbe said that the... And he went on speaking on the inyan of mesirus nefesh, and it was very obvious that this maimer had to do with what happened, because he was a baal mesirus nefesh in Russia, and even this was also connected to the inyan of mesirus nefesh. He died akides Hashem. So the Rebbe said that the mesirus nefesh that's in the day Rashmad is even more than Hanania, Mishael, and Azariah's time, because this, the day Rashmad, is already after a long, long arichos of golus, and a lot of gezeiros and shmodos, rachmanu l'tzlan. So how could it be that this is not enough, and we're still in golus? The Rebbe was crying here. We're still in golus in achesh chof u mechupal, and from time to time, even things happen that there is no bih in hes, but there's no explanation at all why this happened from all sides. And the Rebbe even used an expression which was very strong, that the hel of a hester is so big that even though the Gemara says that shlucha mitzvah einam nizokin, that if you're a shliach to do a mitzvah, you don't get damaged, that protects you. Nevertheless, the hel of a hester is so great that we don't even see that. Because in this case, he was going to shul with tallit and tefillin, so he was definitely in the category of shlucha mitzvah einam nizokin. And he was nevertheless, rachmanu l'tzlan, nabach murdered. So

05:13 the Rebbe said that the hel of a hester is now so big that even though normally it says that shlucha mitzvah einam nizokin, nevertheless, the hel of a hester is so great that even this we do not see. And the Rebbe said that nevertheless, after all that, this is a generation that nevertheless, like we said before, is looking for dersheim, mevakshe Hashem, mevakshe pnecha yankef selah. They're looking for the pnimiyus of Hashem. So here we see, number one, that the Rebbe mentioned that he's already sitting with Rabbi Senya and Nesiyenu. And also in the maimer, he mentioned this interesting inyan, that even though we say shlucha mitzvah einam nizokin, that now we're in such a time that there's a hel of a hester and that guf, that that guf we don't see.